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Next week, the Federation of BC Writers is holding an editing intensive, and it’s going to be awesome. I’m particularly excited because one of the sessions will be led by Cheryl Klein (!!! the author of The Magic Words, which is my favorite craft book) ❤️❤️❤️

I’m also doing a session on DREADED FILTER WORDS 😂

1. You don’t need to be a member to attend (though members get a better rate)

2. That said, you don’t need to be in BC (or even Canada) to be a member.

3. It’s ridiculously inexpensive for the amount of programming you get. (Especially since it’s in Canadian dollars 😆)

4. Even if you can’t make sessions live, you’ll have access to the recordings.

5. Cheryl Klein 😍

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writing isn’t hard it’s just emotionally devastating and time-consuming and requires full body possession by an idea

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CHRIS PINE laughing at memes of himself

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Good Morning!

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Reblogging because the schedule is up! All times in Pacific.

For anyone who needs a kick in the butt (or some gentle encouragement … or some coaching … or some accountability … or all of the above) to get some creative work done this summer. ❤️

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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Splish splash 💦🐸🚿

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one time I used the ben affleck smoking reaction image in the family group chat and my mom replied with the funniest possible response which was: "mommy doesn't know who the guy is???" and that phrase has not left my brain since. I'll see blorbos on my dash that I don't recognize and I'll be like well it seems mommy doesn't know who the guy is.

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Fanfiction writers be like:

"here's the immensely time consuming 100K word novel-length passion project I'm working on between my real life job and family! It eats up hundreds of hours of my one and only life, causes me emotional harm, and I gain basically nothing from it! Also I put it on the internet for free so anyone can read if they want. Hope you love it!" :)

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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating

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For anyone who needs a kick in the butt (or some gentle encouragement … or some coaching … or some accountability … or all of the above) to get some creative work done this summer. ❤️

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2015? that wasnt even that long ago. it was only... [doing the math] ohhh. ohhh..... oh dear...

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bro is it parasocial to experience art

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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Wanna read my book for free? I’m looking for ARC Readers!

ARC Applications are open for The Fall Before Flight!

An Advance Reader Copy is a free copy of an upcoming book that the author provides to the reader in exchange for an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads.

Looking for fantasy readers who like or would be interested in:

Old school epic fantasies by authors like David Eddings and Robert Jordan.

Characters with disabilities, where the disabilities have an impact on the story.

Ride-or-Die Friendships that are so ride-or-die that it causes Problems (tm).

Immersive world-building and fantasy languages.

Non-spicy *SLOW* burn romances and unrequited love.

Strong female, LGBT+, and POC characters everywhere.

"War" in stories that is more about how characters are affected by the war than about the war itself.

A unique take on dragons/dragon folk.

Magic systems with consequences.

See the application for the blurb and content warnings!

If you're interested, please fill out the application below and I will get back to you soon! I’m taking ARC readers on an ongoing basis throughout June.

ARC Application

(Even if you don’t want to be a reader, please share if you have any fantasy-book-loving followers!)

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might fuck around and drink the daily recommended amount of water